Photo by Under ArmourMisty Copeland, who has been outspoken about race in the world of dance, has become the first black principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre, a first in the to…
Natalie Portman hosts Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil on Great Performances Friday, July 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Itzhak Perlman is the…
Renée Fleming (Hanna) and Nathan Gunn (Danilo) perform an excerpt of their Act II duet “Hello, Here’s a Soldier Bold” from Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Costumes ar…
Broadway star Kelli O’Hara makes her Met Opera debut as the Baron's coquettish wife Valencienne in Lehár's effervescent operetta The Merry Widow. O’Hara and the women’s …
Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, starring soprano Anna Netrebko, shares a double bill with Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, starring Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko. Acclaimed Polish film director M…
Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, a 2010 hit on Broadway, comes to television with five-time Tony Award winner and three-time Academy Award® nominee Angela La…
Actress Sydney Lucas performs a scene from ‘Fun Home” during the American Theatre Wing’s 69th Annual Tony Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York June 7,…
Please view the original post to see the video. In this filmmaker interview, Ric Burns describes what camera techniques he used to capture the ephemeral nature of dance on film, as well as …
Multimedia site for the production airing Sunday night on many PBS stations. The website has historical background, interviews with Michael Frayn and Howard Davies, and an examination of how a scene from the play was adapted.
It took Marcia Milgrom Dodge 30 years of working the regional theater circuit to become a Broadway director.
Now on PBS NewsHour's Art Beat blog: Jeffrey Brown talks with actor and playwright Tracy Letts and director Pam MacKinnon about their rendition of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.̶…
Now on PBS NewsHour's Art Beat blog: Jeffrey Brown talks with actor and playwright Tracy Letts and director Pam MacKinnon about their rendition of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.̶…
From our culture desk: This weekend, director Julie Taymor's film “The Tempest” opens in New York and L.A. It will open nationwide next week. As you'd expect from Taymor, she onc…
Since West Side Story, Stephen Sondheim has been rhyming his way into theater history. Today, he's widely seen as the most important writer of musicals in the past half century.
The German-born chanteuse Ute Lemper has cultivated a loyal following over the years with her interpretations of the works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
Please view the original post to see the video. American Masters teams up with Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns to co-produce a new documentary about American Ballet Thea…
Watch the dancers of America Ballet Theatre in these six stunning GIFs showing off their expert technique and the company's repertory from the past 75 years. Misty Copeland in Sleeping Beau…
Misty Copeland joined American Ballet Theatre in 2001 and is its third African-American female soloist and the first in two decades.
Please view the original post to see the video. In this film outtake, Daniil Simkin, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, performs excerpts from Benjamin Millepied's Everything …
Please view the original post to see the video. Step inside the ballet studio as American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie guides principal dancers Julie Kent and Ethan Ste…
Gillian Murphy, a principal dancer for American Ballet Theatre, shares a diary entry from her jam-packed rehearsal day. After company class, she rehearsed dances for 6.5 hours to prepare for…
Please view the original post to see the video. American Ballet Theatre principal dancers Gillian Murphy and Marcelo Gomes rehearse a section of Pillar of Fire by Antony Tudor. They descr…
American Ballet Theatre: 75th Anniversary is a soft-cover book of photographs of the ballet company's dancers, past and present, and articles written on the occasion of the company's 75th an…